Location: Art Talk Area, Luxembourg Art Week
Language: French
Guest Speakers:
Charlotte Masse, Curator and Head of Exhibitions at Konschthal Esch
Karolina Markiewicz, Author, Director and Teacher
Clément Minighetti, Independent Curator
The AWARE x Luxembourg program was launched in 2025 with the financial support of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette and Konschthal Esch. It places the country within an international research network dedicated to women artists from the 16th century to the present day: AWARE – Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. Co-founded in 2014 by Camille Morineau – an art historian specialising in women artists – AWARE now counts Luxembourg among the European countries represented in its index. The programme thus helps to bring visibility to the careers, works and contributions of Luxembourg women artists to art history. Bringing together several contributors to AWARE x Luxembourg, this discussion will look back at the creation of the programme and explore the specific challenges of research dedicated to women artists in Luxembourg. As the programme enters its second year, what sources and archives make it possible to trace their careers? What direction has been taken to continue its development? And how can new figures and new narratives be brought to light? Through the experiences and research of the various contributors, the discussion will highlight both the challenges and the opportunities offered by this collective momentum to help renew the history of art in Luxembourg.
Biographies
Charlotte Masse is curator and head of exhibitions at Konschthal Esch, which she joined in 2021 after more than eight years at Mudam Luxembourg, where she worked on the conservation and exhibition of the permanent collection. Since then, she has developed a curatorial practice combining monographic exhibitions, thematic projects, research and artist support. Her projects include Flying Mercury by Tina Gillen (2023) and Phantom Limbs by Hisae Ikenaga (2024), as well as co-curating metalworks (2022) and Displaced II (2024). In 2025, she launched the AWARE x Luxembourg programme, a partnership between AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, the City of Esch-sur-Alzette and Konschthal Esch, aimed at strengthening the international visibility of Luxembourg women artists. Her curatorial practice explores the transformations of territory and the relationships between spaces, societies and narratives. She continues her commitment to women artists today with the upcoming monographic exhibitions of Marta Dyachenko (2026) and Jeanne Susplugas (2027) at Konschthal Esch.
Karolina Markiewicz holds a degree in political science and philosophy and works as an author, director and teacher. In her directing and staging work, she operates both independently and in collaboration, notably with Romeo Castellucci, Silvia Costa, Yuko Kominami, Kevin Muhlen, Ásta Sigurdardottir, Tamiko Thiel, Jacques Schiltz, Bertrand Sinapi, Amandine Truffy and Pascal Piron. Her films and installations have been selected for various festivals, including the Venice Film Festival. She writes regularly for the weekly d'Lëtzebuerger Land, as well as for magazines such as Mouvement and Aware, and for Salzinsel magazine, which she created and directed. She is also the initiator of Kulturstruktur video talks. She is a member of AICA, of the board of the Théâtre National du Luxembourg, and of the Institut grand-ducal.
Clément Minighetti joined the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean foundation in 2000, at the very start of the preparatory phase of Mudam Luxembourg, as head of collections. From 2004, he became Curator of the collection and worked on the Museum's inaugural program (2006). In 2007, he took over as head of Mudam's programming department, serving as Chief Curator. Since June 2024, he has been an independent curator based in Luxembourg. He regularly curates or co-curates solo exhibitions, the most recent of which include Cosima von Bonin (2024), Rayyane Tabet (2023), Martine Feipel and Jean Bechame l (2022), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2022), Isamu Noguchi–Danh Vo (2021), The Perceiving Body – Robert Morris (2020), Jutta Koether (2019), João Penalva (2018), Tony Cragg (2017), Cristina Lucas (2016), Heimo Zobernig (2014), Lee Bul (2013) and Conrad Shawcross (2012), as well as group exhibitions such as La forêt. Solitudes et solidarités (2025), A Model (2024), Freigeister (2021), Eppur si Muove (2015), Solides-Fragiles (2014) and Mondes Inventés, Mondes Habités (2012).
